The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLFollow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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